I’ve gotten a few emails recently alluding to the fatal Hawaii wildfire and the string of strange coincidences associated with it.
And I am reminded of the bromide favored by agents in intelligence and counterintelligence (spies) that there is no such thing as a coincidence. Translation: If two supposedly random occurrences seem inexplicably to share common elements, there is a reason for that if you look far enough beneath the surface. It’s often not merely randomness after all.
This all began with an email alerting me that the Maui police chief has been reported to be the very same guy who was the incident commander for that 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, when the crazed gunman fired into a nearby concert from his casino hotel room, killing 60 and wounding at least 413.
I’m not sure what this means, if anything. But it does provide cause for pause that the same man is involved in dealing with an historic mass shooting and now, a few years later and thousands of miles away, an historically deadly wildfire, whose victim total stands at 110 as I write and could climb further.
Perhaps we ought to keep tabs on this guy’s movements for the good of society, sort of like an early warning system that he’s cursed and could be coming soon to a town near you.
There have been reports of warnings for years that the specific area in Hawaii was at great risk for wildfires due to the crisscrossing of electric wires over areas of a particularly flammable invasive species of wild grass. That, and a history of strong winds drying said grasses and/or downing power lines, was an accident waiting to happen.
There are more strange aspects to the fires. According to reports, sirens for some reason were not sounded to warn residents. Worse, there were erroneous county reports issued early on that the fires were 100 percent contained.
It gets even more incredible. Water pumps seemed to run dry as attempts were made to combat the flames. Power was said not to have been cut in timely fashion to address the problem of high winds downing lines and igniting that grass.
Already, Hawaii’s governor is out with plans to acquire the burned lands and, among other possibilities, make it into a green space memorial to the victims.
And, incredibly, another email informed me that a book, “Fire And Fury: (blah, blah, blah)” already is up for purchase on Amazon. Based on the title and short summary, the book is an unapologetic effort to leverage the tragedy to push for more climate crazy agendas to be rammed through without debate, sort of like COVID vaccines.
It’s available both for Kindle users and in a paperback book version. That’s an incredibly quick turnaround for a book, unless a large portion of it were written in advance, just waiting to plug in specific details of some natural event.
To sum up. I don’t know what this all means. I do know, to quote the Alice character of Wonderland fame, it all grows curiouser and curiouser.
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